Theses

One generation and two different age groups on arrival: Arabic-English code-switching in the conversations of Iraqi Arabic male immigrants living in Greater Manchester

Supervisor: Webb-Davies, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modulations of cerebellar predictive language function through continuous theta burst stimulation

Supervisor: Bracewell, R. (Supervisor) & Mari-Beffa, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

From Repeat Diabetic Ketoacidosis to Expert by Experience: Exploring the Highs and Lows of Living with Type 1 Diabetes

Supervisor: Stewart, D. R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Jackson, D. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Professional Doctorates

Three Essays on Financial Inclusion

Supervisor: Molyneux, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Habitat Selection of a Non-Native Snake: Implications for Future Management of Zamenis longissimus in Colwyn Bay, North Wales

Supervisor: Wuster, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Compression-based Parts-of-Speech Tagger for the Arabic Language

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mutual fund performance : evidence of stock selection and market timing ability from Islamic mutual funds

Supervisor: Molyneux, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Building and verifying parallel corpora between Arabic and English

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Representation of Iraqis in Hollywood Iraq war films: a multimodal critical discourse study

Supervisor: Shank, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Human DNA damage sensor RAD9B affects CHK2-T68 Phosphorylation, p21 stability and cell survival in G1

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The regulation of electronic evidence in the United Arab Emirates : current limitations and proposals for reform

Supervisor: McDermott Rees, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Grammar-based preprocessing for PPM compression and classification

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Biodiversity and colonisation of macrofauna in an artificial lagoon, Qatar

Supervisor: Le Vay, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An examination of the adequacy of the Libyan Penal Code to deal with credit and debit card forgery

Supervisor: Cahill, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of new diagnostic devices for TB

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Three essays on banking policy & government intervention in the US banking sector

Supervisor: Carbo-Valverde, S. (Supervisor) & Stentella Lopes, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Manpower planning and development in Oman

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sedimentological, geophysical and oceanographic studies of postglacial and contemporary sedimentary processes of the NE Menai Strait and Conwy Bay (Wales, U.K.)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element studies of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of Complex Sugar Mycolates of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Supervisor: Baird, M. (Supervisor) & Al-Dulayymi, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Synthesis of single enantiomers of ω-1 methoxy mycolic acids from Mycobacterium alvei

Supervisor: Al-Dulayymi, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modulation of Human ATM-Chk2 and ATR-Chk1 Kinases by Period-1 in the Response to DNA Damage and the Role of the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Per1-A962P in the Response to Genotoxic Stress

Supervisor: Caspari, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A critical analysis of the function played by the UAE's Financial Intelligence Unit in counteracting money laundering with particular reference to the UK's Financial Intelligence Unit

Supervisor: Hyland, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive models of Arabic text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The functional characterisation of potential oncogenic roles of the human germ line genes PRDM9 and TEX19

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

First language attrition and second language acquisition: exploring the role of phonetic aptitude and language use in highly proficient late Arabic-English and English-Arabic bilinguals

Supervisor: Foltz, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of human germ lines genes for clinical applications

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Exercise, neuromuscular control and performance, and stability of the knee joints

Supervisor: Gleeson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A conceptual e-learning system for teaching mathematics

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Novel Approach to Printed Arabic Optical Character Recognition

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Can a visual art intervention increase quality of life and well-being in care home residents with dementia? An exploratory study

Supervisor: Windle, G. (Supervisor) & Woods, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Media Bias: a corpus-based contrastive study of the online news coverage on the Syrian revolution - a cxritical discourse analysis perspective

Supervisor: Tenbrink, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Branding and brand preference in the mobile phone service industry

Supervisor: Rowley, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Kuwaiti merchants’ Networks, 1850-1946: A Tiny Sheikhdom in the First Global Age

Supervisor: Rees, L. (Supervisor) & Batiz-Lazo, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Sclerochronology at St Kilda: A study of late Holocene climate and hydrography on the western Scottish shelf using the shells of long-lived bivalve molluscs

Supervisor: Scourse, J. (External person) (Supervisor), Butler, P. (External person) (Supervisor) & Turner, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Arts in Care Settings: Embedding the cARTrefu Approach in the Social Care Sector

Supervisor: Seddon, D. (Supervisor) & Algar-Skaife, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Motor imagery as a potential tool for improvement of musculoskeletal function in physiotherapy practice

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Medical and psychological outcomes following epilepsy surgery

Supervisor: Bracewell, M. (Supervisor) & d'Avossa, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Re-examining the Systematics of Asian Pitvipers Via Multilocus Analysis

Supervisor: Malhotra, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Identification and functional characterisation of germ line genes in human cancer cells

Supervisor: Mcfarlane, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Investigation into Waqf Company and its Place in Saudi Arabian Civil Law

Supervisor: Wali, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Design, Implementation and Analysis of a 5.8 GHz Radar for Insect and Micro-Target Monitoring

Supervisor: Palego, C. (Supervisor) & Cross, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An exploration of the characteristics of student nurse personal epistemologies and their relationships to approaches to studying

Supervisor: Rycroft-Malone, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Splitters: A Nervous Novel

Supervisor: Skoulding, Z. (Supervisor) & Conran, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of the reward value of exercise using discounting paradigm

Supervisor: Kubis, H. (Supervisor) & Rogers, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on mental health, well-being, and lifestyle of primary-age children with Type 1 diabetes and their parents in Kuwait

Supervisor: Erjavec, M. (Supervisor) & Viktor, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Bank business models, capital structure, lending behavior and risk

Supervisor: Williams, J. (Supervisor) & Xie, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Implementation of evidence based practice for managing post stroke shoulder

Supervisor: Burton, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysing and Correcting Dyslexic Arabic Texts

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Impact of Classroom and Naturalistic Exposure on the Conceptualisation and Use of Motion Verbs by L1 Arabic Undergraduate Learners of English

Supervisor: Sanoudaki, E. (Supervisor) & Shank, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy